Anne Heche

Well. It IS dangerous. And it is a liaison, potentially, if we're talking "Marie Antoinette time-travels to the future and climbs into your clothes dryer and hits Start." On one hand, this is gutsy genius, and on the other it is COCKAMAMIE SHENANIGANS.

Also, for the record, this was several years after her Celestia episode. So I think she is just being... well, Maytag Antoinette.

Amber Valletta

Guys I'm pretty sure Amber Valletta is secretly the Scarlet Pimpernel.

Charlize Theron

Charlize, somehow, is in costume as a bereaved old-timey Nicole Kidman.

I felt a close-up of all this styling was paramount.

Scarlett Johansson

"Hi guys. I have 18th century cleavage. Is that enough?"

Natalie Portman

"Hi guys. My dress is a dangerous liaison between fabric and strings. Is THAT enough?"

Lucy Liu

"Hi guys. I ignored the theme, just like basically everyone else."

Serena Williams

Serena! For someone who is/was so often the proverbial bride and not the bridesmaid, it's ironic that she's dressed as the latter.

Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon

Please, universe, protect the pure things in this world, and to me they are one of them.

J.Lo

This is J.Lo with Dolce and Gabbana, looking... pretty much like what I would have pictured. It's big, it's furry, it's sniffing around the 18th century without actually committing to any of it in a real way, and it's kind of unattractive, which you will see...

The torso DOES look a bit like it could be a fancy chair, so maybe that's the idea.

Kristin Davis

"Uh. Hmm. Maybe... Ermine? Yes, that makes it look royal... wait, that's NOT the theme? What's the theme again? Oh, I give up."

Naomi Watts

"Hello. I am a beautiful salute to the Maypole, because why not"

Jimmy Fallon

"Hello. Later tonight I will tell you I'm bilingual, but in reality I speak exactly as much French as I have learned from reading food labels while traveling in Canada."

Carolyn Murphy

I guess this is the perilous communion of a v-neck with a belt that is barely attached to anything.

Calvin Klein and Hilary Swank

That's fine! Calvin doesn't care about THEMES.

Ashanti

Ashanti is at least in a nightie that she could wear DURING a dangerous liaison.

Karolina Kurkova

This is boring, but it's also not terrifying

Renee Zellweger

I want to love this, but she seems all washed out.

Claire Danes

"Welcome to my hazardous rendezvous with masking tape."

Eva Mendes

"Ha ha ha! BEHOLD, my toxic meeting with WHOEVER DESIGNED THIS!"

Sheryl Crow

This is sort of soothing now.

Linda Evangelista

This feels like another night's theme entirely, but wow, she looks fantastic. It's so much more interesting than almost all of these.

Sophie Dahl

"If you like me in this, then don't look at the 2005 slideshow, because things take a turn.

Julianne Moore

This looks like it came too big and they tried to fix it in her hotel room.

Kim Cattrall

"I couldn't help but wonder if my bronzed gown came out more like Metallic Turd."

Famke Janssen

Eek.

Diane Kruger

Imagine if she'd done her hair.

Lauren Holly

One thing I LOVE about these old slideshows is seeing people I'd forgotten about, like Lauren here. She is in an upcoming ballet show called Tiny Pretty Things, which stars a dude named Barton Cowperthwaite, which I promise is not just another of our made-up versions of Bandersnatch Cuddlemonkey

Mandy Moore

It is so rare that you see a celeb show up to this event with their jacket balled up in their hand.

Zac Posen

And then Zac fought a bull.

Bernadette Peters

She is the MOST calming ending.

Anne Heche Both Won and Lost the 2004 Met Gala

The theme was "Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the 18th Century."